To avoid that potential risk that could ruin your app, you could use one of the pre-designed color blind safe palettes and/or you could test your app using a tool that lets you emulate a color blind environment.Ĭolor Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. To create great looking QlikView apps you should be conscious that some people out there do not see colors as you do. Feel free to use, improve and distribute it.Īs discussed earlier in this blog, around 7-8% of world’s population has some short of different color perception. I created a QV app (see below) with these colors palettes to facilitate their adoption by our community. It was originally designed for cartographers but it’s a standard in academia for any type of data visualization. Created by Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower and The Pennsylvania State University. Some of the most popular color combinations are in. There are lots of content and good examples on the internet about color palettes sites like can provide you with some nice color combinations for your next project. It’s key to find a color palette that works and that lets business users consume information quickly and in an efficient way. If you are looking for more insight about color and interpretations I strongly recommend you to read Apeksha’s Technical Brief.Ĭolors are present in our apps not only in the charts but also in the backgrounds, tab row, captions, and so forth. A few days before, Apeksha shared some good tips about color usage in QlikView apps. Chuck showed us how to manage colors and alpha transparencies to increase visual perception in our dashboards making it clear for business users to consume charts. We have been talking a lot about color recently.
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